turkey’s foreign policy in the process of ottomanism and islamic neo-caliphate

the politics of shifting to the east, which is interpreted in the statements of turkish islamist politicians as ottomanism, is a newly emerged strategy which is essentially comprehensible in the connection with the history and identity of the ottoman era and the new regional and trans-regional role of turkey. the ideology of ottomanism not only implies the expansion of turkey’s influence on the areas which once belonged to the ottoman empire, of course not land expansion, also indicates that most realms ruled by the ottomans were islamic countries (arabic realms of the middle east, north of africa and the balkans) in a way that ottomanism practically brings to mind al-othman’s islamic caliphate. hence, sometimes islamic caliphate or better said islamic neo-caliphate, is coupled with and is from the same nature of the ottomanistic policy, in other words, islamic neo- caliphate is the essence of ottomanism which is retrieved and strengthened through reviving religious identity.